Improvement in shock-carriage attachments to harvesters



1,0. BR. '0WN.. SHOCK CARRIAGE ATTACHMENT T0 HARVESTERS.-

No. 170,230. 1 Patented Nov.23, 1875.

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UNITED STATES" PATENT omen JAMES 0. BROWN, OF MASSILLON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF PART OF HIS RIGHT TO EDWIN BAYLISS, PLINY HODGES, AND FRANQOIS T. LOMONT, OF

SAME PLACE.

lMPR O VEMENT IN SHOCK-CARRIAGE ATTACHMENTS TO HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. l70,230,'dated November23, 1875; application filed August 9, 1875.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES 0. BROWN, of

Massillon, county of Stark, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Im-- been formed or set up in a shock,to discharge the same, leaving it standing on the ground; and Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section through the same.

Similar letters of reference denote corresponding parts in both figures.

My invention relates to a novel carriage attachment to harvesters, in which the grain is bound either by hand or automatically on the machine, said carriage being designed to receive the bound bundles, permit the same to be set up or formed into a shock, and then to deposit the shock in a standing position on the ground, as hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawing, A represents the main frame of the shock-carriage, which may be rectangular in form, but which, by preference, at its front, is made angular or three-sided, as shown in Fig. 1, as giving a bracing form, and, consequently, greater strength to the frame, which is left open at its rear. The timbersv a a a a 0. of which the frame A is composed, are made of sufficient width to constitute a platform on which the attendant can stand while manipulating the bundles. The forward bar a has a swivel pin or bolt, b, by means of which it is to be connected with the frame of a harvesting-machine at the rear thereof, the carriage being thereby propelled or drawn over the ground, and also, at its forward end, maintained in uniform relation to the harvester-frame. In addition to the swiveling-pin b, jointed draft-rods b are attached at the sides or front corners of the frame A, and with the rear of the harvesterframe, these draft-rods relieving the pin or bolt 1) of lateral strain, without interfering with the freedom of movement of the frame A in following the surface of the ground over which it is drawn. The side bars a, at their rear ends, are supported upon caster-wheels B B, which, in connection with the devices uniting the frame A to the harvester-frame, adapt said frame A to maintain a substantially uniform relation to the ground. Near the forward end of the frame A, in suitable bearings attached thereto, is mounted a transverse rock-shaft, O, to which a number of longitudinal arms, C, are rigidly-connected, said arms being of uniform length, and to the rear ends of these arms bars D are jointed by hinges on buttjoints, which permit the bars D to rise above the plane of the arms 0, but prevent them from falling below said plane, in such manner that when the arms 0 are raised into a horizontal position, or one parallel with the frame-bars a a, the bars D will also be in a horizontal position, in the same plane with arms 0, and in this position adapted to receive and support the bound bundles deposited thereon from the harvester. Therocking frame, composed of the shaft 0 and arms 0, has an angular arm or lever, E, rigidly connected with it, said arm extending forward and upward through a perforation in, or by the side of, the forward bar a and is provided at c with a spur or tooth, which engages with a suitable spring-latch or locking device atf, by means of which the arm E is held depressed, with the arms G held thereby in-the position shown in Fig. l.

The operation is as follows: Supposing the parts to be in position as shown in Fig. l, the bundles, as received from the harvester, are formed into ashock, standing upon the bars D, by the attendant standing and moving up- 'on the frame A, inclosing said bars D upon three-sides. When the shock is completed, the attendant, with his hand or foot, trips the latch f, or releases the arm E therefrom, and the shaft 0, rocked by the weight upon the arms 0, allows the bars D, with the-shock thereon, to drop upon the ground, in position as shown in Fig. 2, whenthe stubble, penetratii g betiveen theibarsl), engages with the buttsi of the grain, holding the shock, while thebars D are drawn from beneath it by the tbrwardmovement of the machinefleating the shock standing in good shape on the ground.

ThebarsDare then raised by means of the hand ortreadle lever arm E, the latter locked inposition, and the operation is repeated as before. 7 I

. It will be obvious that the form and construction of the frame or carriage, andof the devices connecting said carriage with the frame of the harvester, also the construction of the lever or treadle arm E and its locking-latch,and of the hinges snpportingthe barD, maybe varied without departing from myinvention. I do not Wish, therefore, to

be confined to the precise construction and arrangement of' said parts shown and described; but,

Having nowdescribed my invention, WhatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is--.

1. A shock-carriage attachment to harvesters, provided with a slatted dropper and a horizontal platform partially surrounding said dropper, and left open at the rear to permit wherebyfthe attendant is enabledto for medium of the transverse rockingshafton Ibar i n a w the unobstructed escape ofthestanding shock,

tan diseharge the S i k Without stoppinlgfthe machine, substantially as describedlf M f i 2. The dropping slatsor bars-D,jointed to. the vibrating arms 0, and operating substan- I tially as described, whereby their parallel rel lation to the g'round ispreserved, forthe purpose and substantially asspecified. a p 3. The jointed droppingslats or bars] 0 D, united to the carriage or frame throughtthe O, substantially as describedu: 4. The shock carriage or frame A, supported at its rear bythe 'casterwheels B B ,.anjd at.

its front by the pivotalbolt or pin ,b,"in combination with the jointeddraft-rods b b per- 1 mitting said carriage to maintain a parallel relation to the ground, as described.

5. The slatted platform D pivoted to 1th..

platform or frame A,in combinationwiththe lever-arm and latch forcontrolliug said platform, substantially as described.

, JAMES 0. BROWN. Witnesses: l a

J. L. BACHTEL, S. A. CONRAD. 

